Sunday, January 21, 2007

It looks like the e-mail claiming to have photos of the space shuttle Columbia's last seconds is circulating again. The hoax says that an Israeli spy satellite snapped the shots of the shuttle exploding; in reality they're just stills taken from the movie Armageddon. I've got the full debunking up on Nuketown if you're curious.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Discussion turns to books and coffee as I reminisce about my 35th birthday, a geeky Christmas, and the surprising fusion of my Xbox 360 with a spiffy new iPod. In Net News I look at Villain Talk, the podcast for evil geniuses, take a bite out of a gingerbread TIE fighter and find out what geeky women at the She's Such a Geek blog. Finally, I review one of my latest reading conquests, Vernor Vinge's space opera A Fire Upon the Deep. Get the show, get the show notes